Your 2013 Pikes Peak Hill Climb primer: "Donuts at 14,000 feet."

Filed under: Motorsports , Hyundai , Mitsubishi , Toyota , Peugeot The teams have all set up their pits and paddocks for today’s run of the 91st Pikes Peak International Hill Climb , and there’s nothing left to do but take a shot at the title. At 8 am Mountain time (9 am EST / 7 am PST), the first of a field of 83 bikes and 63 cars – whittled from an original field of 157 – will race 12.42 miles through 156 turns from the start gate at 9,390 feet to the summit finish at 14,110 feet. The summit is where we’ll be all day, having arrived on the media bus at around 5 am and not allowed to come down until the race is finished. If it’s anything like last year that could mean a 14-hour day on the top munching on donuts at the summit caf